(a.) Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.
(v. t.) Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) When compared with nonspecialized regions of the cell membranes, these contact sites were characterized by a decreased intercellular distance, subplasmalemmal densities and coated pits.
(2) Interaction of viable macrophages with cationic particles at 37 degrees C resulted in their "internalization" within vesicles and coated pits and a closer apposition between many segments of plasmalemma than with neutral or anionic substances.
(3) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(4) The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated.
(5) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(6) Demonstration of low levels of Pit-1 expression in Ames dwarf (df) mice implies that both Pit-1 and df expression may be required for pituitary differentiation.
(7) At 4 degrees C or after fixation, anti-renal tubular brush border vesicle (BBV) IgG bound diffusely to the surface of GEC and to coated pits.
(8) A cell with a large Golgi apparatus and associated cytoplasmic granules resembles the pit cell described in the liver of a few other vertebrates.
(9) Pitting corrosion was seen on low-resistant Ni-Cr alloys, which had less Cr content.
(10) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
(11) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(12) Freeze fracture analysis confirmed the integrity of the tight junctions as well as increased numbers of vesicles or pits along the lateral cell membrane, indicating increased endocytotic activity.
(13) Likewise, the cost of emptying these pits can be high.
(14) Bifid uvula, preauricular pits, and abnormal palmar creases were also slightly more common in the patients, but the differences were not statistically significant.
(15) Hypertrophic fibrous astrocytes were common in chronic active lesions, were capable of myelin degradation and on occasion, contained myelin debris attached to clathrin-coated pits.
(16) A mother and daughter both presented at age 5 years with the triad of right-sided congenital cholesteatoma, right preauricular pits, and bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
(17) In addition, the perfusion method in this experiment suggested the possibility of distinguishing pinocytotic vesicles from pits of cell membranes.
(18) Performance pay pitting teachers against each other just does not work - we are not in favour of that,” Merlino said.
(19) Both larval stages had an inner circle of 6 labial papillae, an outer circle of 6 labial papillae and 4 somatic papillae, and lateral amphidial pits.
(20) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
Thimble
Definition:
(n.) A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle.
(n.) Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.
(n.) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes.
(n.) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole.
(n.) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.
(n.) A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing.
Example Sentences:
(1) A conveniently formed thimble has been created for use in dissection during augmentation mammaplasty and gynecomastia operations which forms a rigid extension to the surgeon's finger.
(2) You will need : pins needle thread thimble iron Firstly, turn the garment inside out and iron the ripped area so it is nice and flat to work with.
(3) He left so few paintings – not more than 120 over a 40-year career – it is rightly said that he measured out his genius in thimblefuls.
(4) Paintings dark with age line the walls, and the audience sits on rough benches drinking thimbles of pruneau brandy.
(5) The pressurized gas exited through the pores of the glass frit and shattered the thin liquid film flowing on the surface of the thimble-shaped device to form small droplets.
(6) The use of a thimble to facilitate scrotal fixation of the testis is described.
(7) Radiation dose given to patients undergoing radiotherapy by 300 kVp X-rays is detected by a thimble ionization chamber placed at the skin surface.
(8) The chamber is capable of being calibrated directly with an iridium-192 source which has in turn been calibrated with thimble-type ion chambers.
(9) No significant differences in lithium release were found when the volume of media used in the test was reduced from 250 ml to 200 ml, the final stage of the test in pH 6.8 phosphate buffer reduced from 5 to 3 h, the number of tablets in each thimble reduced from three to one, or the prescribed phosphate buffers replaced with phthalate and Tris, respectively.
(10) A thimble-shaped glass frit nebulizer has been developed for atomic spectrometry.
(11) It cannot be hidden by the pea and thimble game played by the Australian government, which claims the offshore detention camps are out of our jurisdiction and in the control of the Papua New Guinean and Nauruan governments.
(12) Nespresso's velvety crema and its darkling thimble of ristretto daily give me the illusion I am a sophisticated continental, living in caffeinated leisure at a pavement cafe where only lovely things – passionate dalliances, superb cakes – are on today's menu.
(13) Two thimble chambers calibrated by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology provide calibration traceability of iridium-192 HDR sources and re-entrant chambers to a primary national standards laboratory.
(14) The total effects of the cavity displacement and the perturbation of the field by the cavity in thimble-chamber measurements of absorbed dose were investigated for electron beams of energy 15, 20, 30, and 39 MeV and for 60CO gamma radiation by LiF dosimeter rods of diameter 1 mm and length 6 mm.
(15) It was found that relative signal distributions from the shielded semiconductor detector agreed, within 1 per cent of the maximum signal, to the depth dose curves and that the relative signal in profile distributions also agreed, within 1 mm or 1 per cent of the signal at the central axis, as compared with dose measurements with a cylindrical, thimble ionization chamber.
(16) The cervical cap--a small, rubber, thimble-shaped barrier contraceptive--fits tightly across the cervix and prevents sperm from entering the uterus.
(17) The rate of temperature changes was studied in a nylon thimble chamber provided with a temperature sensor, when the chamber was inserted in different phantom media.
(18) An air kerma rate is measured using a calibrated thimble chamber in an "in-air" calibration jig.
(19) The thimble glass frit was pressurized internally by gases such as helium (He) or argon (Ar) while the test solution was applied externally to the frit.
(20) At the café table, at the bar, they order a thimble-sized espresso.